Pedophiliac Phobia, Mixed With Homophobia
As RTE Online, an Irish new service, reported: The pop star Michael Jackson is to...
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'Pederast' In Online Merriam-Webster's...
There was a controversy involving the Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus at www.m-w...
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Merriam-Webster Boners - #1: "Hispanic...
A few years ago, i wrote to Merriam-Webster about their definition of "Hispanic"...
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English County
Some years ago I was asked, by someone over the Internet trying to find out my location...
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Largest English Speaking Nation.
The leaders of India would do well to attempt to make everyone fluent in English...
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Usage Of Article For "Hospital"
This was from a London website: CHAOS AT IKEA OPENING Five people are in hospital...
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Pronunciation Of 'Forte' (Italian-Derived...
The various pronunciations of "forte" have been discussed before in these newsgroups...
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A Puzzling Apostrophe.
The word "wanna" is one of those nonstandard terms (like "ain't") which has a standard...
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More Confusion Re Bre "Fee Earner"
We recently discussed the peculiar BrEism "fee earner", which seems to be restricted...
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Raise Vs Rear?
Hi, This is from a selective cloze exercise, which aims to test semantic precision...
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You Learn Something New Every Day
In an article in Wednesday's *St. Paul Pioneer Press,* "Pilots fired for S.D. landing...
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The Nonsense League Table
Who speaks the most gibberish, the worst jargon, the most twisted English and the...
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Hollywood Executives Call For End To Residual...
Hollywood Executives Call for End to Residual Payments By MICHAEL CIEPLY Published...
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What Do You Call This Kind Of Teacher...
I have another question for you. This is something I've been wondering about for...
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Online Dictionary With Word Pronounciation...
I'm looking for online dictionaries with word pronunciations other than www.m-w.com...
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Top Ten Irritating Phrases
A top 10 of irritating expressions has been compiled by researchers at Oxford University...
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L.L.Bean
An author submitted a text that mentioned L.L. Bean (an outdoors-themed clothing...
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My Scholarship Essay , Revise Please ...
Egypt's First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak, son of Egypt's President Hosni...
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2008 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition...
The 2008 screenplay competition winners were announced this weekend at Austin, and...
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Pronunciation Of 'Gibbous'
A question has arisen on a UK newsgroup (non-linguistic) about the pronunciation...
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